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“Libs of TikTok has become an agenda-setter in right-wing online discourse, and the content it surfaces shows a direct correlation with the recent push in legislation and rhetoric directly targeting the LGBTQ+ community,” The Washington Post reports.
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A must-read from The New York Times. “Eight current and former KOMO employees describe a newsroom where some have chafed at Sinclair’s programming directives, especially must-runs pieces, which they view as too politically tilted and occasionally of poor quality.”
LaunchWhat everyone watching Republicans debate on Fox Noise should keep in mind Media Matters reminds us that appearing reasonable on debate night is part of
LaunchConservatives are not looking to make education more rigorous and informative, or science more empirical or verifiable, or voting more representative, or the government more
LaunchLacking all self-awareness, Fox now calling Obama obstructionist The Fox Noise Channel does revionist history better than anyone else. Once an election is over, they
LaunchLet’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy with a well-developed
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